Two arrested in York County, one on the run after potent opioid kills one, police say

Two Rock Hill residents have been arrested on drug charges and another is on the run after two women overdosed on opioids and one died, according to a York County Sheriff’s Office release.

The arrests are the latest in police and prosecutors going after the people who supply drugs in cases that cause deaths. Just last week, a Charlotte man was sentenced to three years in prison after selling heroin to a York County judge’s daughter who died from an overdose.

The arrests this week came after two women on May 30 overdosed after taking carfentanil, an extremely potent opioid, police said. One of the women was saved after emergency services administered Narcan, a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses.

Marvin Brown, commander of the York County Multijurisdictional Drug Enforcement Unit, said York County investigators have been seeing more cases involving opioids fetanyl and carfentanil.